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LEFT SABFLAB 253 S AR It IL was excommunicated as contumacious; and an attempt was made on his life by a band of assassins. He afterward con- fined himself within his monastery, where he wrote "History of the Council of Trent," a "History of the Interdict," and other works. The first named was published in London in 1619 under the pseudonym of Pietro Soave Polano, an anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto ; and it almost immediately rose into popularity with the adversaries of Rome, as well in England as throughout the continent. He diec Jan. 15, 1623. SABPLAB, a large sack or bale of wool containing 80 tods; a tod contains 2 stone of 14 pounds each. SABBACENIACE.ffi, in botany, the pitcher plants; an order of hypogynous exogens, alliance Ranales; herbaceous, perennial bog plants. Known genera two, species seven; mostly North Ameri- can; one is from Guiana. SABBAIL, MAUBICE, a French gen- eral, the commander of the Sixth Army Corps at the outbreak of the World War. When hostilities began he was sent to the Argonne, where he organized the defense of Verdun, during the first Xhm, GENERAL SARRAIL attacks made by the army of the Ger- man Crown Prince at this point, during August and September, 1914. In August, 1915, General Sarrail was sent to take command of the Allied army in Mace- donia, with headquarters in Salonika. It was while under his command that the Allied forces in this region took from the Bulgarians the important city of Monas- tir, in December, 1915. In December, Q— Cyc 1917, General Sarrail was recalled and returned to France. SABBE (German, Saar), a river ris- ing in the Vosges mountains and after flowing northwest, emptying into the Mo- selle, a few miles above Treves. Of its entire length of 152 miles, about 54 miles are navigable to Sarrebruck and about 20 miles more to Sarreguemines by means of a system of locks. The middle course of the river is connected with the Rhine- Marne canal through the Sarre canal. The valley of the Sarre is famous for its wines. The adjacent territory contains extremely rich coal deposits. The river formerly was in German territory, but as a result of the Peace Treaty of Versailles, all of it, with the exception of the last 20 miles, is now under French control. See Sarre Basin. SABBE (German, Saar) BASIN, a coal mining region on both sides of the Sarre river, forming part of the Prussian province of Rhenish Prussia and of the Bavarian Palatinate. Its area is approx- imately 751 square miles and it has a population of 657,870. The more impor- tant towns are Forbach, Sarrebruck, St. Ingbert, Sulzbach, Neunkirchen, Putt- lingen, and Sarrelouis. The region is of great industrial importance on account of its rich coal mines. The political impor- tance of the district is due primarily to the provisions regarding it contained in the Versailles Peace Treaty. In payment for the destruction of coal mines in north- ern France and as payment on account of reparations, Germany ceded the mines to France, the territory to be governed by a commission for fifteen years. For the pro- visions of the treaty see Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain ("The Sarre"). SABBEGUEMINES, (German Saarge- miind)j a town in Alsace-Lorraine, at the confluence of the Blies and the Sarre. It is 40 miles E. of Metz, and 60 miles N. W. of Strasbourg. It is noted for manu- factures of plush, leather, velvet, porce- lain, faience, and papier-mache snuff- boxes. Sarreguemines was originally a Roman settlement. Ceded to the Duke of Lorraine by the Count of Saarbrucken in 1297, it went to France in 1766, re- turned to Germany in 1871, and became French again with Alsace-Lorraine under the Versailles Treaty in 1919. Pop. about 15,000. SABBETTE, BERNARD, founder of the Conservatoire de Musique of Paris, was born in Bordeaux, Nov. 27, 1765. At the commencement of the Revolution he became an officer of the Garde Nationale. After the fall of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, he gathered together forty-five Vol 8